Tag Archives: faculty research

Study: 64% of students willing to donate genetic material for science

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Kathleen Tibbetts

A majority of college students is receptive to donating blood or other genetic material for scientific research, according to a new SMU study. In what appears to be the first study to gauge college students’ willingness to donate to a … Continue reading →

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Research: Blue laws, green cards and other colorful legal terms

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Kathleen Tibbetts

Elizabeth Thornburg never imagined that she would be turning to Dr. Seuss, Shakespeare and vaudeville for legal research. But those sources proved invaluable when she joined forces with another law professor, a law librarian and a legal lexicographer for the book … Continue reading →

Posted in Research | Tagged Dedman School of Law, Denise Gee, Elizabeth Thornburg, faculty books, faculty research, Fred Shapiro, James E. Clapp, Lawtalk, legal history, legal terms, linguistics, Marc Galanter, origins of expressions | Comments Off

Study: English-language dominance marginalizes most EU citizens

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Kathleen Tibbetts

The European Union has 27 member countries and 23 official languages, but its official business is carried out primarily in one language — English. Yet the striking findings of a new study show that barely a third of the EU’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Research | Tagged Dedman College, diversity, economics, English-only, European Union, faculty research, language, linguistic disenfranchisement, Margaret Allen, Shlomo Weber, Victor Ginsburgh | Comments Off

Research Spotlight: Does public insurance provide better care?

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Kathleen Tibbetts

In the fierce national debate over a new federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, it’s widely assumed that private health insurance can do a better job than the public insurance funded by the U.S. government. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Research | Tagged CHIP, Dedman College, economics, faculty research, graduate student research, health insurance, healthcare debate, Manan Roy, Margaret Allen, Medicaid, private health insurance, public option | Comments Off

Research Spotlight: CERN scientists close in on Higgs boson

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Kathleen Tibbetts

In a giant game of hide and seek, physicists say there are indications they finally may have found evidence of the long sought after fundamental particle called the Higgs boson. Researchers at Switzerland-based CERN, the largest high-energy physics experiment in … Continue reading →

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Research Spotlight: Mathematical model predicts nations’ stability

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Kathleen Tibbetts

Thanks to a new model created by an international research group, it is now possible to predict which European countries are more likely to become united or which are more likely to break up. It does so by not only … Continue reading →

Posted in Research | Tagged Dedman College, economics, European demographics, European stability, European Union, faculty research, Ignacio Ortuño Ortín, Shlomo Weber | Comments Off

Research Spotlight: Mapping confirms vast geothermal resources

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Kathleen Tibbetts

New research from the SMU Geothermal Laboratory, funded by a grant from Google.org, documents significant geothermal resources across the United States capable of producing more than three million megawatts of green power – 10 times the installed capacity of coal power … Continue reading →

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Research Spotlight: Seeking solutions for unsafe water

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Kathleen Tibbetts

Supported by a $270,000 grant from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and additional SMU funds, faculty member Andrew Quicksall and his graduate students in the University’s Lyle School of Engineering are collecting water samples in UNHCR refugee camps, bringing samples back … Continue reading →